2023-07-19 16:13:00
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Back in his Pyrenean lands, the pianist David Fray created “L’Offrande musicale”, a brilliant festival (Renaud Capuçon as guest-star of the 3rd edition) and sensitive to disability.
By Olivier Bellamy Renaud Capuçon performs The Musical Offering in Lourdes. © DoudPhoto Published on 07/19/2023 at 4:13 p.m.
The Musical Offering is a work from the end of Johann Sebastian Bach’s life, built on a theme submitted by Frederick II of Prussia to put it to the test. The Leipzig cantor composed a pinnacle of the art of counterpoint, including fugues, ricercari (baroque ancestor of the fugue) and canons. Offered to the sovereign, the score is above all a gift to humanity, a treasure cherished by anyone who places spirit above matter.
More anecdotally, The Musical Offering is also a collection of texts by the late André Tubeuf brought together for the Bouquins collection. A transmitter of emotions, with a style well known to readers of Point, André nurtured almost amorous passions for certain musicians. David Fray was one of them, as well as Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Serkin or Elisabe…
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